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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-04-25

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-04-25 page 1

-"'"'''' " " j. i ; i. 1 p0 i COLUMBUS, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1874. NO. 98. VOL. XXXV. IT SIEBERT & LILLEY, Blank Book Manufacturers. Printers, Binders, Stationers And Legal Blank Publishers. BOOK BINDING Of every description, by the Edition or tingle Volume. OPEBA HOUSE HOLDING, (UpStalrs.) . mt20 COMIWBCS. Gr. C UJEtLIN'S Picture Gallery 216 1-2 South High Street, Is the Place to get Good Pictures Cheap. You can ffci FOUR GOOD PICTURES (Card Size) For 50 CI. Large Size Pictures, with Frame, $1.25. CHEAPEST Iff THE CITY. GIVE ME A CALL sprl HnV2m ioitate0itmaL Ollicci High, I'enrl nnd Compel Htm. J. M. OOKIY. S. M. SMITH. A. W. rSANOISOO. COaiiT, SMITH & FRANCISCO, Pl'BMHHF.n AND PROPRIETORS. JAMKS M. COJILV, .... Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Cona-ress. April 24. Senate A bill was passed relieving legal documents from invalidation for not bearing revenue stamps The Louisiana bill being again taken up Mr. Mcrrimon concluded his argument in rela tion to that measure The Senate ad journed until Monday. llmm The Legislative Appropriation bill being resumed, a motion to strike out the appropriation for the Board of Education gave rise to a long discussion, resulting in withdrawal of the motion. The usual annual debate then ensued in regard to the ap propriation for the Agricultural Department, occupying several hours. Fourteen pages of the bill were disposed of, leaving only six to be yet considered; t'onstlmtlnnnl Convention. A rail 23. The number of temperance petitions presented was about twenty. A memorial of the Woman's State Temperance Convention was also presented, by a delegation of ladies selected for that purpose. It submits us the sense of the Convention a proposition of four sectiom, substantially as that prepared by Judge West, except in prohibiting license, to take the place of Article XV of the present Constitution A reconsideration of the vote taken on the Judicial Articlo was voted, nnd toward the close of the day's session the article was passed by a vote of 05 to 35 Late in the day the report of the committee on Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors was reached, and several amendments were offered but no vote reached. It is believed the debate will result in an agreement to submit both license and anti-license piopOiitions to a vote of the people. There is no more reason for a division of parties on the question of currency expansion than there is for a division on the multiplication table. , There is no question as to the powers of Congress or the National Government; and the principles of finance, so far aa they relate to the increased issue of an inconvertible currency, are almost as nearly fixed as those of an exact science. It is an Inex orable rule that any additional issue of an irredeemable currency simply dilutes that already out, adding to its volume without Increasing its value. The value of that already in circulation is re duced in something near the Banie ratio with the increase in volume. If one might compare the currency to soup, the specie value would be represented by the amount of nutriment ; it would be as hopeless to attempt to increase the amount of nutriment by deluging the soup with more water, as it would he to attempt to increase the money value of the onr-rency by adding more irredeemable notes. Such notes are not money, but broken promises to pay money. It will be time enough to talk about the credit of the Government being a secure basis for their final redemption when the credit of the Government brings them up to par with specie. One fact ia worth much theorizing on this subject and the fact is, that notwithstanding this basic credit of the Government faith, our irredeemable currency continues to be as sensitive as that of any age or country, to the inexorable laws of the science of finance, as illustrated in the history of every irredeemable currency since the creation. The Government credit is as good as gold; the Government currency wabbles about, shrinking and expanding in value from day to day, just as all irredeemable notes have done from the beginning of time. There is not a contract made in the United States, for the payment of any debt at a day in the future, which does not violate the laws against gambling for no one can know what the real value of the consideration will be when it becomes due, and the parties " gamble on the chances " of losing or gaining by the fluctuation, just as uncertainly and as riskily as any two men engaged in any other game of chance. There is not a bushel of wheat, or a yard of muslin, or a pound of coffee, sold in the United States to-day, at a nominally fixed price by dollars, to be paid at any time subsequent to the day of sale, for which any man in the country can predict what tli9 real consideration will amount to, when it comes to be paid. Each dollar of the consideration is sub ject to a wabble in value, running from perfect equality down to half what it is worth the day of sale, or double that amount as the case may be and no man can do more than guess with some sagacity what it may reasonably be expected to be worth, when the debt comes to be paid, So every debt made in the country has in it this element of gambling this lottery of chances. And this state of things ex ists as the result of laws as exact and well ascertained as the laws of medicine, agri culture, chemistry, or any other science. We might as well divide parties upon a question whether fever will make one fat and healthy, or whether bananas can be raised in Alaska, or whether ice be made to burn by squirt- The veto message was undoubtedly a surprise to everybody not personally in a position to know of it. The New York papers of that day unanimously announced that the bill would be signed The Tribune alone expressing any doubt. It is amusing to read the dispatches of the intelligent special correspondents, written on the 22d. One to a New York paper will serve as a sample of the rest. The correspondent says : " I can state upon the most indisputable authority that Presi dent Grant will sign the Senate bill. The fact may be known to-day officially, I was the first of the Washington corre spondents who was enabled to telegraph you the fact that the bill would be signed,' and it will soon be known that my information was correct." Of course " the only way out" for this correspondent will be to assert that the President didn't know his own mind. The leading papers all over the coun try approve the veto, everywhere. I' would be monotonous to give a summary which we have partially prepared, and we have concluded to omit it. It is a fact most creditable to the profession, that the ablest journalistsof the infected localities have not been attacked by the inflation symptoms which have prevailed epidemically in those localities. The press of the country is therefore even more unanimous than the country itself, in approving the President. As the country gains in knowl- ge the approval will become universal. Meantime, the inflationists are hotly excited. Some, with a slight breadth to rest upon, have loBt their balance entirely. Such men as Morton, with more heft of brain and breadth of bottom, maintain their accustomed tranquillity, and accord patriotic motives to the President, while they are unwilling to give up the battle. Nevertheless, the battle is practically lost to them. There is not a majority large enough to pass the bill over the veto, neither is there a majority in favor of the President's policy looking to speedy resumption. The result is, a preservation of the present status. There' will be no change in the currency, probably, and that is the next best thing to specie resumption. The dead lock results favorably, all things considered. There is one lunatic in Congress who proposes a return to the old State Bank system, but bis head will probably be on exhibition very soon among the other vegetables of our National Agricultural Department. RY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL MT. VEENON. Abortive I'rosecnUon for Llqnbr Belllnff-ttrent Blue In Pint. Ilottles Jnuk Buttle it Legs I Tender Fluttering Attention to tbe slate Journal. Special to the Ohio State Journal. ' Mt. Vebnon, April 24. At the instance of the foremost of the crusaders, a certain party in this city was arrested a day or two since, and taken to Cleveland, charged with having sold liquor at retail, without having paid the special tax, as requireJ under the United States Internal Revenue laws. It is claimed that the case occurred in the summer of 1873. Upon a hearing of the case, the Court dismissed the proceedings, and discharged the prisoner. It is but another instance of persecution, and one of those malicious attempts to oppress and annoy a private citizen. The rage of the crusaders, and their discomfiture can be better appreciated than expressed. The weary spies still occupy their little stools in front of the recusant raloonists' establishments. Theresultof the spy system haB been to transform every old toper's rear pocket into a gin cellar, and make the demand for pint bottles considerably exceed the supply. Trade is very dull, money is scarce, and junk bottles are recognized as legal tender among the boys. It is rumored tUat the City Council will soon present articles of impeachment against James Lewis for carrying the Ohio State Journal. The State Journal is wicked and worldly, yet nearly all the crusaders do like to Bee what the "darned thing" sayH, and to this end gobble it up in the morning long before the subscribers can get possession of it. It is very sad. BROOKS-BAXTER. There are various reports as to the standing of the Cabinet on the veto. We are inclined to think the New York Tribune is correct in saying that the Cabinet was unanimous in its favor. A Knox county delegate to the Cincinnati Temperance Convention paid her respects to the State Journal the last day of the session, Such attentions from the sex always make us blush with modest pleasure, and fill us with gratitude too deep for utterance. Gentle sister, accept the assurances of our highest oonsidera-tion.The Eastern and Western Democrats sit facing each other in the finance boat, Dulling in opposite directions. Which leads some anxious inquirers to ask, What are the gurreat prrrinciples of the Demo-cratic party, anyhow ? It is the Bole mis. sion of the Democratic party to be un happy on account of the Republican party. Its platform is, Whatever is, is wrong. As matter of information solely : Co lumbus is not by any means the only place where the Government is to have a postoffice rent free, We need not go further than our neighboring city of New. ark to find another. Whether the prece- dent is worth anything to Columbus is another matter, aa to which we have no opinion. We seek only to correct a mis. apprehension as to the facts. A sentiment which was greeted with "enthusiastic and prolonged applause" in the Temperance Convention at Cincinnati, was the assertion of a Chicago female, that if she had the making of the laws she would reverse the present order, and let the murderer off with a fine, while the rumseller should be punished with death. Such a clearheaded view of the degrees of crime. such a fine and discriminating moral sense is not unusual among the intemperate ranters who are doing their worst to make the whole total abstinence business odious. A prohibition orator in Boston a short time since exposed a soft place in his head by saying he considered a noted murderer, named by him, less of a criminal than the landlord of one of tbe most respectable hotels, which happened to have a bar in the basement It ia hard to say whether such persona ought to have the pity accorded to feebleminded folk, or ought not rather to have their htadi sent to ft bakeoveji and hardened a bit ing water on it, as to aiviue upon me question whether an inflation of the currency would be in accordance with sound statesmanship and the laws of nance. If there is to be a division of parties on this subject, itcannot be on any question as to the powers of the govern ment, or the laws of finance, but upon the question whether the faith of the govern ment shall be repudiated and the principles of finance disregarded by Congress, in the face of the overwhelming and un varying disasters which have inexorably followed such a course in every case of the like kind in all history. In case of a division of parties on such an issue as this, it is impossible to doubt what the result would be. To doubt would be to doubt the common sense? of the people. To doubt would be to sus pect the American people of unanimous dishonesty or wholesale lack of sense. There is at present, perhaps, a lack of perfect imformation on the subject ; there are many voters who have not fully in formed themselves as to the history or the principles of finance. Butas the sub ject is more and more discussed, and es pecially if it shall be forced upon them as party issue, the people will inform themselves. Then, if not now, they will discover that inflation means repudiation in the most exact and literal meaning of the word ; they will discover that it means absolute destruction of the value of the currency ; they will discover mat u means utter ruin, not alone of the unpopular creditor classes, who have the balance in their favor on the Bills Account, but of every class in all American industries and pursuits, having anything to lose. The outcome of such discoveries cannot be doubtful. The President and the men who have stood by him in the courageous struggle for tbe preservation of the pledg ed good faith of the Nation, and the sue. cess of sound and statesmanlike princi- nles in the adjustment of our financial difficulties, will receive the almost un&n imous verdict of Well done. One of the most sprightly papers we have is the Bellaire Commercial, edited by Mary E. Hoover. It is a Democratic paper, and its editorials are written with force and elegance. Mrs. Hoover, as we learn from a communication, has courteously placed her paper entirely at the disposal of the crusaders, for the publication of all their notices and reports of meetings free of charge just as the State JouiiNAL-haB done hare. But she has her own opinions on the subject, which are expressed in a courteous and ladylike manner that we would be glad to see always imitated by the crusading sisters. In addition to this Mrs. Hoover has declined to sign the pledge presented to her by some officious person among the sisterhood. The result is, the sisters are "denouncing" Mrs. Hoover as an intem perate person, and are "stopping their papers" just as they did with us here. This lovely spirit on the part of the crusaders has called forth Biich admiration that Mrs. Hoover is receiving ten new subscribers for every one stopped just as we did. The sisters have done Balaam's work. They went out to curse, and their mouths shower down blessings on lis. Thanks, sweet sisters. "Hence the Milk I" To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal : Having seen in the State Journal the late resolution of the Presbytery of Columbus, expressing regret that the exi gencies of party required the removal of the Rev. O. H. Newton from his benen- cient work as Chaplain or the uuio Peni tentiary, it occurred to me that a reference to certain events, briefly chronicled below, would suggest to the members ol the Presbytery what other exigencies, in addition to political ones, may have produced such removal. SeDtember 4. 1873. Hon. William Law rence published in the Guernsey Times a communication strongly intimating "that for ways that were strange and tricks not vain." a certain luv. gentleman "was pe culiar." Sentember 22.1873. Rev. William ter euson coramencea an action lor uuei, based on the aoove communication, againtu the Hon. William Lawrence, in the Court of Common Pleas of Guernsey county Ohio. Damages claimed, $10,000. March 30.1874. Hon. William Lawrenae ppointed Director of the Ohio Peniten tiary. April 7, 1874, Rev. William Ferguson appointed Chaplain or the Ohio I'emten tiarv. April 21. 18(4, Kev. William rerguson ismissed his action for libel against Hon. William Lawrence. Hon. William Lawrence and Kev. Wil liam Ferguson reside in the village of Washington. Guernsey county, Uluo. Do not the above succession of events suggest the relation of cause and effect? The Rival Arkansas Governor Jie-KliKtlng a foiniironiUe Their Be. spectlve Annie Null 1-nce to f ace Krooks Fortifying and Baxter Anxloit to Ularin. Little Rock, April 24. Negotiations have been going on to-day between the two hostile parties, to the effect that both shall retire all their forces except a bodyguard, until a competent thibunal settles the question as to the Governorship. Governor Baxter has convened the Legis lature for that purpose and proposes to have the matter relerred back to the people for final settle ment. Brooks holds that Baxter has no power to call the Legislature together. The latter is to-day engaged in erecting new barricades and a powerful magazine in rear of the State House. Some of his troops have gone home. Gov. Baxter haB stopped sending his men home. Both forces, as to numbers, are now pretty equally divided, ISaxier's are now nearly all white men and BrookB s mostly col. orcd. Gov. Baxter to-day sent the following telegram to the President : 'To U.S. Grunt, President of tho United States: "In accordance with my correspondence with vou by telegraph. 1 have convened the Leaislalure for the 11th day of May, I have sent home part of my forces, and would willingly send the balance, except a small bodyguard, but Brooks retains his whole force and receives reinforcements. All the people want is that the peace be 1 1 .1. T 1-1 ..I resiorea ana me legislature let juune in the performance of their legitimate busi. ness. Elisha Baxter, "Governor of Arkansas." Col. Johnson, Secretary of State, has not vet received any reply to his demand for the public buildings of which he is custodian, and ma otitee in tne state House. Lieut. Cushman, of tho Sixteenth Infantry, who returned from Memphis this morning, authorizes and requests a contradiction of the statement telegraphed from Memphis, Wednesday, that he went to Memphis in order to telegraph to the President because of the violent partisan feeling in the telegraph office at Little Rock. He says he made no such statement, and his business to Memphis was wholly disconnected with the telegraph office at this place. CROP STATISTICS. LOWES MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. More nevalatlon and SnnVrinc In the Inundated District New Crevasse In Mississippi Levees Urent Damaises tu Crops and Bail-ways Bain still FnllliiK. New Orleans, April 24. A letter from a planter in Carroll parish says, in regard to tbe overflow, that there will be twentyseven plantations in that parish that will make no cotton at all, eleven that may make half a crop and twenty-nine that are good for a full crop. Water from the Bonnet Carre and McCullen crevasses has overflowed St. James parish. forcing many to leave their homes and seek protection in other places. . " - r i:f : A resolution Ul n relict meeting lu Pointe Coupee parish says that, in conse quence of a large numlier of persons having had their iiomee completely swept away and nothing saved, they being cut off from all communication with other parts of the parish, it is essentially necessary that immediate relief be afforded to prevent starvation. ine Lievae company s engineer, van Pelt, reports a crevasse at Mickey s, be yond control, luny quarter oi a mue wide and about ten leet deep. money s residence, a two-story frame cottage with eight rooms, was taken up by the flood and carried to the back part ol the plantation, where it lodged against treeB. Almost the entire parish of West Baton Rouge and the whole ot tne pansn ot Iberville, lying on the right bank of the Mississippi river, appear to be under water. A rain storm prevails this morning, the wind blowing half a gale from the northwest. For six days the northeastern and western mails have now been due. The Great Republic is due to-morrow with ninetysiz packages of matter. The Jackson railroad is broken near Amite, the bridges being washed away. On the Mobile road the bridge over rean river is washed away, and a portion of the West Pascagoula bridge u gone. .No trains by either road. Louisville. Aunt 24. ine uoara oi Trade to-day appointed several commit tees to thoroughly canvass tne city lor donations to the Louisiana relief fund. A considerable amount is already sub scribed and will be forwarded at once. Memphis. April 24. The Little Rock railroad is washed away near Riceville, stopping all communication. The dam age is not Known, out it win uuuuucti ue impossible to repair the road until the flood subsides. Weather cloudy and cold; river about the same. XLIII Cougress First Session. Lcirculated speeches of several members of the committee on banking and Currency. He denounced it aa favoritism, partiality, wrong and almost a crime. Mr. Randall stated that the matter had been informally called to the attention of the Banking committee. The abuse consisted in the Comptroller of the Currency sending out speeches of some members of the Banking committee to various banks and persons, but the Comptroller had stated as a justification that the postage was no greater with a speech than it would have been in correspondence without it. A member The speech must have been very light. Laughter.) Mr. Ward The practico would involve favoritism. Mr. Randall I believe that speeches of most of the members of the Banking committee were sent out in that way. Mr. Merriam None of mine. Mr. Randall I believe it was the fault of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Knox, and I think with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Ward) that the thing is all wrong, but that it is not Che first step in that direction, for enormous quantities of seeds are some times sent out in the same way through the Agricultural Department. Mr. Cobb of Kansas offered an amendment fixing the postage on agricultural reports at ten cents, but on objection of Mr. Willard of Vermont, it was ruled out of order. . Mr. Lawrence offered an amendment requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to obtain and publish statistics as to the production of wool, animal food, etc., but it was also ruled out of order. After the paragraphs relating to the Agricultural Department were disposed of without any notable changes, and when appropriations for the Judiciary came under consideration, Mr. Garfield, Chairman of the Appropriation committee, moved to insert an item of $1,000,000 to pay judgments of the Court of Claims. He remarked that the estimates were for $2,000,000, while the amount appropriated for the current year was only $400,000. He stated that the aggregate of pending cases before the court was about $4,000,-000, and the calculation was that $1,000,-000 would pay all judgments, but as the proposition was an important one he would not ask action on it untilto-morrow. The committee then, after disposing of fourteen pages of the bill and leaving only six pages undisposed of, rose. Mr. Myers introduced a bill to repeal the second section of the act of July, 1872, which reduces the duties on certain imported articles ten per cent. Referred. The House then adjourned. The Bellaire Commercial, edited (an well edited, too) by a woman, has the fol lowing paragraph, in type of special prominence. Thanks to the powers that be for the defeat nf female suffrage in the Constitu tional Convention. Most women nave more right already than they Uke good care of. Nearly $200!) and a large quantity of provisions were contributed on Change vMterdav in St. Louis for the Louisiana 'sufferers. AU money contributed will be invented in nrovLiona. which will be shipped to New Orleans under charge of an agent. The Government has rested its case the Howard Court of Inquiry. General Howard will commence hit defense on Monday, and expect to occupy ft week. Crop Prospect. Pittsburg Commercial. Should the season be ordinarily propiti ous from this time forward, there is little doubt that we shall have, from one end of the land to the other, one of the most abundant harvests witnessed for many years. The crop report from nearly all the States are full of the most hopeful and sanguine promise. Throughout tbe South we near oi extensive piBiiiiiign u, vum, wheat, oats and rice, as well as sugar and cotton, while labor is more abundant, and is secured at rates much lower man loose which have hitherto ruled. The change nf the nnlicr of nlantera from hiring on shares to monthly wages, has also had the effect of clearing the plantation or idlers, nnd of bringing into the field a large num ber of laborers. Altogether, the agricultural outlook of the year is most promis ing. At last an invention has been made and oatented. which it seems surprising has never before been attempted, and that is to arrange all wagons, buggies, carriage, etc., in such a manner that by the least pressure of the foot the horse can be unhitched from the carriage, and the wheels topped. Every vehicle drawn by animals ought to be constructed on this method. Acreage of Potatoes nnd Barley in Eight Ntntcs Condition of Swine nnd Prices of Produce. Indianapolis. April 24. The follow ing is an abstract of the summaries to be published to-morrow iu the National Crop Reporter : The area planted in irisn potatoes lasi vear in the States of Illinois, Indiana, "Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin was in round numbers 554,000 acres, the averrge percentage of increase upon wnicn lsesuniaisi ameany 5 per cent., or about 28,000 acres. r. 1 , T . "uorreponaenis in luuiueHum, i. aim Wisconsin estimate the probable increase in the area of barley to be 2.6 per cent. Ascorupared with last year tne average condition of swine, in April, in the eight States named above, shows a very low rate as compared with the condi. ion the same date last vear. Representing the latter by one hundred, the average lor tne eigni States is a fraction leas than eightyone. None of the States named export over ninety, and Missouri returns as low as aixtvseven. The average prices oi lending articles April 1, are as follows: Wheat $1.17, corn 55 cenU. oats 52 cents, hay $9.27, swine $4.66, potatoes $1.12. There is shown since March 15, an advance on corn, oats and hay, and a decline in wheat, swine and potatoes. Weather Probabilities. Washington. April 24. Over New England, winds will shift to northeast and southeast, with increasing cloudiness and over the southern portion rain. For the Middle States and lower lake reeion. increasing northeast to southeast winds, cloudy weather and over the former section rain. For the South Atlantic States, cloudy and rainy weather, with fresh and brisk winds, mostly ironi souiiieasi tonorm-west. For the Gulf States, winds shilling to north and west, clearing -Mather ana rising temperature. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, nartlv cloudy weather, and over the east. ern portion "of this area probably light rain. From Missouri north and northwest. ward over the upper lake region, rising temperature, brisk and possibly high southerly winds bearing to westerly, and over the northern portion rain. Stockholders of the Allegheny Valley railroad have elected the following Board of Directors: Col. Thomas A. Scott and George B. Robert, of Philadelphia: Job Scott, W'm. M. Lvon, Win. K. Nimick, TUT X 17 t- I m P.lr V 1 VJ 1 1 . AJ. X- , VUIICB, V 1 - ...... J , and Hon. Felix R. Brunot, of Pittsburg. John Scott was unanimously elected President by the new Board. The failure of John H. Zeregt, gold broker, is announced. Washington, April 24, SESiATK. The Senate proceeded to consideration of bills on the calendar, and the following were parsed : Senate hill amendatory of the act to provide an internal revenue to support the Government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1864. It provides that no legal document or paper required by law to be stamped, which was made, signed or issued in the Northern States prior to the first of July, 1805, shall be deemed or held as invalid or of no effect by reason of failure to impose thereon the required Btamp. The Chair laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War inclosing the draft of a hill in regard to the jurisdiction of courts-martial. Referred. Also, a letter from the Treasurer of the United Statts transmitting his accounts with tho Postollice Department. Referred. Mr. Edmunds, from the Judiciary committee, reported without amendment the same bill passed by the Senate last session, for the creation of a court for the adjudication and disposition of moneys received into the Treasury under an award made by the tribunal of arbitration, constituted by virtue of the first article of the treaty of Washington. Placed on the calendar. On motion of Mr. Sargent, the vote by which House bill to amend the twenty fifth section of the coinage act of 1873 was indefinitely postponed a few days ago, was reconsidered and the hill placed on the calendar. The morning hour having expired the Senate resumed consideration of the Lou isiana bill, and Mr. Merrunon concluded is argument commenced yesterday. Mr. MorrilUof Maine called up House bill to render available ceitain balances of unexpended appropriation for the payment of bounties and prize money to colored soldiers and sailors. Passed. The Senate went into Executive session and boou after adjourned until Monday. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting copiea of all orders and correspondence in .relation to the troubles in Arkansas, in answer to a resolution of the House. Re ferred. Mr. Swann. from the committee on Ap. nronriation. reiiorted the Consular anu Diulomatic Appropriation bill. Referred. The bill appropriates $3,347,304, includ in S150.000 for the survey ot the boun. dary between the United States and Brit-. . i -i e l. isn 1 08SeS8lons, iroill jjM3 Ul ine n wuo to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. It also includes Sl.929,819 to pay claims of British subjects allowed by the joint committee. The House then went into committee of the Whole, Woodford in the chair, on the Legislative, Executive and judicial AtmrnDnation bill. A motion by Mr. O'Brien to strike out the paragraph for the Board of Education gave rise to a long discussion, in the course of which Mr. Beck alluded to the Finance bill and its veto, declaring the Comptroller of the Currency had misled the President in regard to the four millions of national currency authorized but noi nsned. bv statine that it was not taken and leaving the impression that it was not called for, which was untrue, and all this in.order that the twentyhve minions which was to be redistributed when the whole amount authorized was taken up might not be called for but might be left with Eastern banks. He (Beck) did not charge tne President with falsehood in the matter, but the President had imposed upon the country inadvertently by using language which led- people to lnier mat ini luur millions had not been taken np because it was not wanted. That was one reason whv he (Beck, objected to swelling u bureaus that could not be relied upon to cive correct information. After further discussion the motion to strike out the paragraph for the Bureau of Education was withdrawn. The usual annual discussion over tli appropriation for the Agricultural De- narimeni occunieu several noiim nu covered the familiar range of subjects, such as the worth lessness or local map nronriateness of seeds furnished, supply ine to the Northwest such seeds as would trrow only in the Valley of the Lower Mississippi, and sending down there Pennsylvania rye and Berks oat. In the course of the discussion, which was gener ally of an amusing, discursive character, Mr. Ward asserted that some of the de-nartment were makine use of official Hostage stamps to circulate speeches of members, and on being pressed for sped ficaiions he named the Comptroller of the Currency as one official who had thus FOREIGN. LADIES and GENTLEMEN IV K are Sole Agents In this City for thebaic of Burt's liue&lioe f.r L utiles. Also, Hurt nnd M eare's goods for GeuiV wear. These goods have the reputation of being the best and flnest inadegood iu Am erica. A full Msnortmcnt, all widths and the 1 test styles just received. We are Headquarters for tine goods of all first-class makers. B. KINSEIX A CO., Opera House (Shoe Store, 167 South High St. the difference there might be in the state of exchange or of delivering bills of exchange. Exchange now being .164 per cent, premium on England a large sum of money has become due to the Englirh house. Payment has been demanded but refused, and the Spauiard threatened if the English house attempted to sue for the claim he would denounce Englishmen to the Captain General as monopolists and speculators aiding in financial ruin of the island. The Spaniard finding the Englishmen were not frightened has agreed to pay about $90,000 as acompromise. ENGLAND. lively discussios in parliament. London, April 24. In the House of Commons to-day, the Marquis of Sals-bury, Secretary of State for India, said the next harvest in India promised to be abundant, and the present provision against famine was undoubtedly ample. Mr. Smollett moved that the suddenness of the lute dissolution of Parliament is deserving of the censure of the House. He characterized the act as a coup d'etat, by which the last Government Bought un constitutionally to retain power. He de clared that Uladstone hart resorted to a Btratugem which was ungenerous to his friends, insolent to his opponents, and barely honest to the nation. Mr. Whallcy seconded the motion. Gladstone stigmatized the assertion that the dissolution was secretly planned as ntrue. absurd and imposssble. He chal lenged repetition of the word trickster, Inch had been applied to htm, and upon refusal of Smollett to repeat it he charged lui with lack ot decency and manliness. He defended the act of dissolution, which he declared would have been more inconvenient had it been postponed. On con cluding his speech, Gladstone left the House. The motion was negotiated without a lvision. Much excitement was mani fested during and at the close of thedebate. ELECTION BRIBERY. The last parliamentary election in Wakefield has been annulled on account of bribery. STEAMSHIP AGROUND. The steamship Silesia, from New York for Hamburg, is aground in the Elbe and reported to be in a dangerous position. A Large Claim Invalidated. Louisville, April 24. Some years nee a number of persons styling them selves the Campbell heirs, laid claim to a large portion ot this city, about three thousand acres in all, and embracing ail of Portland and the greater portion of land in Louisville below lhird street. A test suit was instituted in the Louisville Chancery Court, and was to-day decided by Vice Chancellor Harlan against the claimants. Part of the land claimed was that embracing the canal, and this claim has been used against the bill now pend ing in Congress lor the disposition oi the canal. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The coasting ship James Chester was beached just outside San Francisco harbor yesterday. - The Boston fund for relief of Louisiana sufferers, amounts to $50,000, with con tinued subscriptions. George Markland, a Boston printer, committed suicide last Thursday night. Ills wile recently drowned herself. Rozer Green was Bhot by Samuel Weaver in ft quarrel at Pulaski, Tenn., on the 22d. Green died shortly after ward. Afire at Brunswick, Mo., yesterday de stroyed a drug store and damaged three or four dry goods stores. Loss fcllJHU; no insurance. The Norwich and 'Worcester steam boat train was ditched Thursday night, smashing three cars and seriously injur ing three or lour persons. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company will issue new tariff tablesdisre- garding the new railway law wuicn goes into effect on the zaia inst. A three-story frame house in New York fell yesterday while being raised burving seven or eight workmen. Four were taken out; the other were believed to be dead. Louisa Machey, daughter of very wealthy parents in New lork, was drowned Thursday evening by falling into the dock while attempting to leap on board ft ferry boat just starting. Officer Benson, of the United State secret service, yesterday arrested John Earll and John Eaton and wife, in Bloom- field, Crawford county, Pa., and got half a bushel of hve-cent nickels, dies, etc. Meeder's Saving Bank and the post- omce in East Haddam, Conn- were robbed Thursday night, the former of $465 and about eight thousand dollars' worth of real estate and railroad bonds, and the latter of about $400. An English commercial house of New York some lime ago bought about 40,000 pounds sterling bill on England si 74 ner cent. Dremiuna from ft Cuban house I to be delivered by the middle of April, ' either party having the option of paying Washington Notes. Secretary Fish explained before the House Appropriations committee yesterday of his estimates for appropriations for consular and diplomatic service. Jose Antonia Echeverria, Minister of State of the Cuban Republic, left New York yesterday for Washington to petition Congress for formal recognition of belligerent rights for his countrymen. The House Judiciary committee has agreed to report a bill authorizing each Circuit and each District Court in the United States to appoint an official stenographer, at a salary of eight dollars per day. The Ways and Means committee was engaged yesterday in perfecting thedetails of a bill relating to moieties, which is being considered with extraordinary care. The committee early next week will examine several more witnesses in regard to the Sanborn contracts. The Attorney General has decided that when a mail contractor fails to fulfil his contract, a new contract cannot be made without re-advertisement. Also, that in order to rentier a mail contract valid a complete schedule of the route Bhould be embraced in the advertisement. A bill reported by the Judiciary committee of the House requiring the Governor of Utah to appoint a commission, which shall make up the jury lists, these lists to be made up from men who have been citizens of the Territory at least one year, and to be drawn in open court. The Mayor of New Orleans telegraph ed yesterday requesting the President to order rations to be issued promptly to Louisiana Bufferers, and adding that he who gives quickly gives doubly. The President responded that he had already directed all possible relief to be furnished.The Ways and Means committee has resolved to investigate the facts connected with the old whisky ring of Washington. It is alleged that suits begun against certain distillers, rectifiers and revenue officers two years ago, were abandoned through the influence of money, and of these charges the committee proposes to make thorough investigation. The Veto. The President's veto of the Finance bill was the general topic of conversation at Jefi'ersonville, Indiana, yesterday, and was both praised and censured. It was claimed by some that the matter was not a party one but one of commercial interest strictly. At a meeting of Indianapolis working-men Thursday evening, a resolution was adopted thanking Senator Morton and his Western colleagues for their advocacy of currency expansion, and urging them to oppose adjournment of Congress until "some satistuctory relict be granted to the industrial interests of the great West." General Butler has been interviewed on the veto. He said he had not read the veto message, but could not see how Grant could get around his own act of last fall, in issuing twentyBix million ot the reserve. In fact be did not understand it unless Grant had gone back on himself, adding, Well, if the rresident will deny his own act let him do it." Temperance Brevities. The woman's movement continues spreading in the Northwest. The Cincinnati State Convention of Temperance Leagues contained 541 dele gates, representing I6i towns and ia coun lies. A state Executive committee was appointed, which selected a State Central committee, whose duty it will be to pre pare and report at an early day a plan for .:.a:n a r.i,.i rni,iri;nn at Cleveland, in June, is proposed. Destroyed by Fire. Graflon, Ohio : Wm. Hart's dry goods, and W. T. Watsons hardware store, Loss, $12,000. Frankfort, Ind.: Livery stable de- stroved. Seventeen horses, two of which were worth $500 each, perished in the flames. Loss about $20,000. Delaware. Ohio : Buildings occupied by the Carlisle carriage factory, Griffith's marble works, and a erocery. Loss. $12.- 000. The fire originated from overheated rags in a rag warehouse. The Original Abolitionists. The committee of arrangements for the reunion of Abolitionists in Chicago in June has issued invitations to the follow-ing persons to be present, and deliver addresses, sketches, etc.: Wendell Phillips, on "John Brown;" George William Curtis, on a special subject, probably "The Abolitionists;" William L'oyd Garrison, special topic; Rev. J. A. Thorn, on the . "West India Emancipation;" Elihu Bur-;: ritt.New Britain, select topic; Hon. Henry Wilson, select topic; Hon. Charles Francis Adams; Oliver Johnson, Bristol, England ; Elder Edward Matthews, on "Father Dickson;" John Bright, M. P., London, England; James Clark, Street, England; Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, Grace Greenwood, ' Mrs. Tracy Cutler; Handle Cushman, Bristol, England ; Hon. E. B. Washburne, Hon. J. C. Fogg, F. E. McCracken, Addison Coffin, Hon. John F. Patten, General H. E. Payne, Hon. C. M.Hawley, John Brown ir., Owen Brown, Theodore D. Weld, General O. O. Howard, J. W. Wilson and Judge E S. Williams, of Chicago, an eulogy on James H. Collins. The committee on Biography report the following subjects for biographical sketches, to he read at the reunion : Illinois men E. P. Lovejoy, "the martyr," by Dr. E. Beecher; Major C. W. . Hunter, first candidate of the Liberty party for Governor, by Rev. D. B. Hurlburt; John H. Henderson, first Liberty candi date for Congress; Moses Hunter and Dr. Nelson, teachers in the free institute; Benjamin Lundy, anti-slavery pioneer; J. II. Collins, Owen Lovejoy, Jesse Fell and Ichabod Codding; Wisconsin men Chas. Durkee and 8. D. Hastings; Ohio men-Samuel R. Lewis, S. P. Chase and Joshua R. Giddings. The lady lecturer who told her hearers to feed their husbands on oatmeal porridge and apples probably never had a husband to feed. DIED. Pfckham At her son's, 221 South Sixth street, tiuzAniTHPtcKHAM, aged ninety-two yean. The funeral will take place cn Sunday at 2 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited. Dispatch copy It and charge this office. Palmer At his late residence, 255 South Fourth street, April 24, 1874, Jasom Palmii, in the 74th year of his ate. Funeral services at bis late residence, Fun-day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend. New Advertisements. "W do ii ! HAS REMOVED BIB FACTORY STORE rROH 21 EAST TRII.1D TO NO. 336 SOUTH HIGH, Where he i prepared to pay THE HIGHEST CASH PRICE FOR WOOL. HB ALSO KEEPS A FULL LINK OF Homc-Mudo Woolen Factory Doodg, At low prices fur cash or exchange for Wo 1. asirsiiecial attention iriveu lo ROLL CARDIN G.Spinuing and all Kinds of custom ork. apio Qitaw w uyi Foreign. Professor John Phillips, the English geologist, is dead. It is reported at Madrid that the Car- lists have paroled all their prisoners. Malcomno has been appointed by the Madrid Government Captain General of the Phillipine Islands. Cable communication is reopened be tween the West Indie and the Lnited Slates, as also with the Central and South America. The Cuban Captain General i said to be about to issue a decree fixing the premium on gold at 50 per cent, and declaring that any one susected of taking part in any transaction above that figure will be tried by court martial. A forced loan of $20,000,000 ia also talked of. On the 5th inst., the volunteers in one of the numerous stockades in the environs of Puerto Principe, Cuba, being short of water, twentyeight of them ottered i were ordered' to brine in ft supply from lagoon in the vicinity, but they had rmrdlv ovine bevond rifle ranee when they were attacked by Cuban and twentyfive of the twentyeight were killed. The surviving three only succeeded in escaping through their wittnes oi loot. ThK friends of General William Schouler. who died in West Iloxbury, Mam., in October. 1872, have erected monument to his memory, with appropri ate complimentary inscriptions. We are glad to learn that he was so highly appreciated by the people of his adopted Slate. Many years ago, General Schoulercame to Ohio", and was for a time editor of the Ohio State Journal. He was a gentleman in every sense of that term, and wa highly esteemed by all who had the good fortune C. Li. GERMAMA FIRE INsl'RANCE COMPANY, office. No. II West Third street, Cmein- nali, Ohio. J. H. CARTEK, President; IK B. MEYER, Secretary. State or Ohio, Ik -on c Dipabtmint, CutuMBUt), Jan lw, 18V4. WHEREAS, THE GERMAN1A r IKE amj Murine insurance Company, located al Cincinnati, in (he State of Ohio, htw filed in this office a sworn statement, by tne proper omeera thereof, showing its condition aim bumnenB, and has complied ia all respects with the laws of this State relating to Kire lnBurnuce ComnanieR; ISow, TiiKKKi'osE, In pursuance of law, i, William F. Church, bnperintendent of lnsiirmien of the State of Ohio, do herehy certify that naid company is aulhorired to transact its ap- Sropriaie nusine oi rir jnsmun-jc iu mis tate, in accordance with law, during the current year. The condition and business of said company at the date of such statement (Dec. 31. 1W7J,) ia shown as follows: Amount of actual paid up Capital.,., $100,000 00 Aggregate amount of available As- arts 17.714 Ail Aggregate amount ofLiabilities (ex cept capital), iiiriuunig v-i.t-t-e bv for re-iurance,being o per cent, of premiums on risks not terminated 87,222 58 Amount of income from preced- in vear in cash 4,iw tu Atnouut of income for premiums on rinks written during tne year, not paid in cash 3,721 W Amount of expenditures ior tiie preceding year in cash. .k,ti .u In witseps wiitRior, 1 have hereunto subscribed mv name and caused the seal of my sial. office to be affixed, the day and year above written. w. F CHURCH, Superintendent. Joseph Dowdall, Aa't.Columbus, 0. npso it " Notice to Contractors. SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED at the State Reform Farm School, nesr Lancaster. Ohio, till 12 o'clock noon. MAY 27, 1874, for furnishing tbe materials and performing the labor necessary for the election of one lamily building, 67 by 36 feet and three stories high above tbe basement. The basement story io he budt of block stone, the upper stories to be of brick. Finns and specifications can be teen at the office of the Acting Commistioner at the Farm. The contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder, who will he required to give a boml, with anod and suflicii ntsecuriiy, for the faithful pertormance of the work. ti. K. HOWE, J. A. M'T, I). W. CH1DLAW, ap25 Itaw 4w Commissioners. J. W. JAMES, BARBER & HAIR DRESSER, Under lb AMERICAN HOTEL The latest improvement In Shampooing ud Hair Cutting. First-class Barber, ia every particular. A fine BU Boost Is at- of making hit personal acquaintance. 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-"'"'''' " " j. i ; i. 1 p0 i COLUMBUS, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1874. NO. 98. VOL. XXXV. IT SIEBERT & LILLEY, Blank Book Manufacturers. Printers, Binders, Stationers And Legal Blank Publishers. BOOK BINDING Of every description, by the Edition or tingle Volume. OPEBA HOUSE HOLDING, (UpStalrs.) . mt20 COMIWBCS. Gr. C UJEtLIN'S Picture Gallery 216 1-2 South High Street, Is the Place to get Good Pictures Cheap. You can ffci FOUR GOOD PICTURES (Card Size) For 50 CI. Large Size Pictures, with Frame, $1.25. CHEAPEST Iff THE CITY. GIVE ME A CALL sprl HnV2m ioitate0itmaL Ollicci High, I'enrl nnd Compel Htm. J. M. OOKIY. S. M. SMITH. A. W. rSANOISOO. COaiiT, SMITH & FRANCISCO, Pl'BMHHF.n AND PROPRIETORS. JAMKS M. COJILV, .... Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Cona-ress. April 24. Senate A bill was passed relieving legal documents from invalidation for not bearing revenue stamps The Louisiana bill being again taken up Mr. Mcrrimon concluded his argument in rela tion to that measure The Senate ad journed until Monday. llmm The Legislative Appropriation bill being resumed, a motion to strike out the appropriation for the Board of Education gave rise to a long discussion, resulting in withdrawal of the motion. The usual annual debate then ensued in regard to the ap propriation for the Agricultural Department, occupying several hours. Fourteen pages of the bill were disposed of, leaving only six to be yet considered; t'onstlmtlnnnl Convention. A rail 23. The number of temperance petitions presented was about twenty. A memorial of the Woman's State Temperance Convention was also presented, by a delegation of ladies selected for that purpose. It submits us the sense of the Convention a proposition of four sectiom, substantially as that prepared by Judge West, except in prohibiting license, to take the place of Article XV of the present Constitution A reconsideration of the vote taken on the Judicial Articlo was voted, nnd toward the close of the day's session the article was passed by a vote of 05 to 35 Late in the day the report of the committee on Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors was reached, and several amendments were offered but no vote reached. It is believed the debate will result in an agreement to submit both license and anti-license piopOiitions to a vote of the people. There is no more reason for a division of parties on the question of currency expansion than there is for a division on the multiplication table. , There is no question as to the powers of Congress or the National Government; and the principles of finance, so far aa they relate to the increased issue of an inconvertible currency, are almost as nearly fixed as those of an exact science. It is an Inex orable rule that any additional issue of an irredeemable currency simply dilutes that already out, adding to its volume without Increasing its value. The value of that already in circulation is re duced in something near the Banie ratio with the increase in volume. If one might compare the currency to soup, the specie value would be represented by the amount of nutriment ; it would be as hopeless to attempt to increase the amount of nutriment by deluging the soup with more water, as it would he to attempt to increase the money value of the onr-rency by adding more irredeemable notes. Such notes are not money, but broken promises to pay money. It will be time enough to talk about the credit of the Government being a secure basis for their final redemption when the credit of the Government brings them up to par with specie. One fact ia worth much theorizing on this subject and the fact is, that notwithstanding this basic credit of the Government faith, our irredeemable currency continues to be as sensitive as that of any age or country, to the inexorable laws of the science of finance, as illustrated in the history of every irredeemable currency since the creation. The Government credit is as good as gold; the Government currency wabbles about, shrinking and expanding in value from day to day, just as all irredeemable notes have done from the beginning of time. There is not a contract made in the United States, for the payment of any debt at a day in the future, which does not violate the laws against gambling for no one can know what the real value of the consideration will be when it becomes due, and the parties " gamble on the chances " of losing or gaining by the fluctuation, just as uncertainly and as riskily as any two men engaged in any other game of chance. There is not a bushel of wheat, or a yard of muslin, or a pound of coffee, sold in the United States to-day, at a nominally fixed price by dollars, to be paid at any time subsequent to the day of sale, for which any man in the country can predict what tli9 real consideration will amount to, when it comes to be paid. Each dollar of the consideration is sub ject to a wabble in value, running from perfect equality down to half what it is worth the day of sale, or double that amount as the case may be and no man can do more than guess with some sagacity what it may reasonably be expected to be worth, when the debt comes to be paid, So every debt made in the country has in it this element of gambling this lottery of chances. And this state of things ex ists as the result of laws as exact and well ascertained as the laws of medicine, agri culture, chemistry, or any other science. We might as well divide parties upon a question whether fever will make one fat and healthy, or whether bananas can be raised in Alaska, or whether ice be made to burn by squirt- The veto message was undoubtedly a surprise to everybody not personally in a position to know of it. The New York papers of that day unanimously announced that the bill would be signed The Tribune alone expressing any doubt. It is amusing to read the dispatches of the intelligent special correspondents, written on the 22d. One to a New York paper will serve as a sample of the rest. The correspondent says : " I can state upon the most indisputable authority that Presi dent Grant will sign the Senate bill. The fact may be known to-day officially, I was the first of the Washington corre spondents who was enabled to telegraph you the fact that the bill would be signed,' and it will soon be known that my information was correct." Of course " the only way out" for this correspondent will be to assert that the President didn't know his own mind. The leading papers all over the coun try approve the veto, everywhere. I' would be monotonous to give a summary which we have partially prepared, and we have concluded to omit it. It is a fact most creditable to the profession, that the ablest journalistsof the infected localities have not been attacked by the inflation symptoms which have prevailed epidemically in those localities. The press of the country is therefore even more unanimous than the country itself, in approving the President. As the country gains in knowl- ge the approval will become universal. Meantime, the inflationists are hotly excited. Some, with a slight breadth to rest upon, have loBt their balance entirely. Such men as Morton, with more heft of brain and breadth of bottom, maintain their accustomed tranquillity, and accord patriotic motives to the President, while they are unwilling to give up the battle. Nevertheless, the battle is practically lost to them. There is not a majority large enough to pass the bill over the veto, neither is there a majority in favor of the President's policy looking to speedy resumption. The result is, a preservation of the present status. There' will be no change in the currency, probably, and that is the next best thing to specie resumption. The dead lock results favorably, all things considered. There is one lunatic in Congress who proposes a return to the old State Bank system, but bis head will probably be on exhibition very soon among the other vegetables of our National Agricultural Department. RY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL MT. VEENON. Abortive I'rosecnUon for Llqnbr Belllnff-ttrent Blue In Pint. Ilottles Jnuk Buttle it Legs I Tender Fluttering Attention to tbe slate Journal. Special to the Ohio State Journal. ' Mt. Vebnon, April 24. At the instance of the foremost of the crusaders, a certain party in this city was arrested a day or two since, and taken to Cleveland, charged with having sold liquor at retail, without having paid the special tax, as requireJ under the United States Internal Revenue laws. It is claimed that the case occurred in the summer of 1873. Upon a hearing of the case, the Court dismissed the proceedings, and discharged the prisoner. It is but another instance of persecution, and one of those malicious attempts to oppress and annoy a private citizen. The rage of the crusaders, and their discomfiture can be better appreciated than expressed. The weary spies still occupy their little stools in front of the recusant raloonists' establishments. Theresultof the spy system haB been to transform every old toper's rear pocket into a gin cellar, and make the demand for pint bottles considerably exceed the supply. Trade is very dull, money is scarce, and junk bottles are recognized as legal tender among the boys. It is rumored tUat the City Council will soon present articles of impeachment against James Lewis for carrying the Ohio State Journal. The State Journal is wicked and worldly, yet nearly all the crusaders do like to Bee what the "darned thing" sayH, and to this end gobble it up in the morning long before the subscribers can get possession of it. It is very sad. BROOKS-BAXTER. There are various reports as to the standing of the Cabinet on the veto. We are inclined to think the New York Tribune is correct in saying that the Cabinet was unanimous in its favor. A Knox county delegate to the Cincinnati Temperance Convention paid her respects to the State Journal the last day of the session, Such attentions from the sex always make us blush with modest pleasure, and fill us with gratitude too deep for utterance. Gentle sister, accept the assurances of our highest oonsidera-tion.The Eastern and Western Democrats sit facing each other in the finance boat, Dulling in opposite directions. Which leads some anxious inquirers to ask, What are the gurreat prrrinciples of the Demo-cratic party, anyhow ? It is the Bole mis. sion of the Democratic party to be un happy on account of the Republican party. Its platform is, Whatever is, is wrong. As matter of information solely : Co lumbus is not by any means the only place where the Government is to have a postoffice rent free, We need not go further than our neighboring city of New. ark to find another. Whether the prece- dent is worth anything to Columbus is another matter, aa to which we have no opinion. We seek only to correct a mis. apprehension as to the facts. A sentiment which was greeted with "enthusiastic and prolonged applause" in the Temperance Convention at Cincinnati, was the assertion of a Chicago female, that if she had the making of the laws she would reverse the present order, and let the murderer off with a fine, while the rumseller should be punished with death. Such a clearheaded view of the degrees of crime. such a fine and discriminating moral sense is not unusual among the intemperate ranters who are doing their worst to make the whole total abstinence business odious. A prohibition orator in Boston a short time since exposed a soft place in his head by saying he considered a noted murderer, named by him, less of a criminal than the landlord of one of tbe most respectable hotels, which happened to have a bar in the basement It ia hard to say whether such persona ought to have the pity accorded to feebleminded folk, or ought not rather to have their htadi sent to ft bakeoveji and hardened a bit ing water on it, as to aiviue upon me question whether an inflation of the currency would be in accordance with sound statesmanship and the laws of nance. If there is to be a division of parties on this subject, itcannot be on any question as to the powers of the govern ment, or the laws of finance, but upon the question whether the faith of the govern ment shall be repudiated and the principles of finance disregarded by Congress, in the face of the overwhelming and un varying disasters which have inexorably followed such a course in every case of the like kind in all history. In case of a division of parties on such an issue as this, it is impossible to doubt what the result would be. To doubt would be to doubt the common sense? of the people. To doubt would be to sus pect the American people of unanimous dishonesty or wholesale lack of sense. There is at present, perhaps, a lack of perfect imformation on the subject ; there are many voters who have not fully in formed themselves as to the history or the principles of finance. Butas the sub ject is more and more discussed, and es pecially if it shall be forced upon them as party issue, the people will inform themselves. Then, if not now, they will discover that inflation means repudiation in the most exact and literal meaning of the word ; they will discover that it means absolute destruction of the value of the currency ; they will discover mat u means utter ruin, not alone of the unpopular creditor classes, who have the balance in their favor on the Bills Account, but of every class in all American industries and pursuits, having anything to lose. The outcome of such discoveries cannot be doubtful. The President and the men who have stood by him in the courageous struggle for tbe preservation of the pledg ed good faith of the Nation, and the sue. cess of sound and statesmanlike princi- nles in the adjustment of our financial difficulties, will receive the almost un&n imous verdict of Well done. One of the most sprightly papers we have is the Bellaire Commercial, edited by Mary E. Hoover. It is a Democratic paper, and its editorials are written with force and elegance. Mrs. Hoover, as we learn from a communication, has courteously placed her paper entirely at the disposal of the crusaders, for the publication of all their notices and reports of meetings free of charge just as the State JouiiNAL-haB done hare. But she has her own opinions on the subject, which are expressed in a courteous and ladylike manner that we would be glad to see always imitated by the crusading sisters. In addition to this Mrs. Hoover has declined to sign the pledge presented to her by some officious person among the sisterhood. The result is, the sisters are "denouncing" Mrs. Hoover as an intem perate person, and are "stopping their papers" just as they did with us here. This lovely spirit on the part of the crusaders has called forth Biich admiration that Mrs. Hoover is receiving ten new subscribers for every one stopped just as we did. The sisters have done Balaam's work. They went out to curse, and their mouths shower down blessings on lis. Thanks, sweet sisters. "Hence the Milk I" To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal : Having seen in the State Journal the late resolution of the Presbytery of Columbus, expressing regret that the exi gencies of party required the removal of the Rev. O. H. Newton from his benen- cient work as Chaplain or the uuio Peni tentiary, it occurred to me that a reference to certain events, briefly chronicled below, would suggest to the members ol the Presbytery what other exigencies, in addition to political ones, may have produced such removal. SeDtember 4. 1873. Hon. William Law rence published in the Guernsey Times a communication strongly intimating "that for ways that were strange and tricks not vain." a certain luv. gentleman "was pe culiar." Sentember 22.1873. Rev. William ter euson coramencea an action lor uuei, based on the aoove communication, againtu the Hon. William Lawrence, in the Court of Common Pleas of Guernsey county Ohio. Damages claimed, $10,000. March 30.1874. Hon. William Lawrenae ppointed Director of the Ohio Peniten tiary. April 7, 1874, Rev. William Ferguson appointed Chaplain or the Ohio I'emten tiarv. April 21. 18(4, Kev. William rerguson ismissed his action for libel against Hon. William Lawrence. Hon. William Lawrence and Kev. Wil liam Ferguson reside in the village of Washington. Guernsey county, Uluo. Do not the above succession of events suggest the relation of cause and effect? The Rival Arkansas Governor Jie-KliKtlng a foiniironiUe Their Be. spectlve Annie Null 1-nce to f ace Krooks Fortifying and Baxter Anxloit to Ularin. Little Rock, April 24. Negotiations have been going on to-day between the two hostile parties, to the effect that both shall retire all their forces except a bodyguard, until a competent thibunal settles the question as to the Governorship. Governor Baxter has convened the Legis lature for that purpose and proposes to have the matter relerred back to the people for final settle ment. Brooks holds that Baxter has no power to call the Legislature together. The latter is to-day engaged in erecting new barricades and a powerful magazine in rear of the State House. Some of his troops have gone home. Gov. Baxter haB stopped sending his men home. Both forces, as to numbers, are now pretty equally divided, ISaxier's are now nearly all white men and BrookB s mostly col. orcd. Gov. Baxter to-day sent the following telegram to the President : 'To U.S. Grunt, President of tho United States: "In accordance with my correspondence with vou by telegraph. 1 have convened the Leaislalure for the 11th day of May, I have sent home part of my forces, and would willingly send the balance, except a small bodyguard, but Brooks retains his whole force and receives reinforcements. All the people want is that the peace be 1 1 .1. T 1-1 ..I resiorea ana me legislature let juune in the performance of their legitimate busi. ness. Elisha Baxter, "Governor of Arkansas." Col. Johnson, Secretary of State, has not vet received any reply to his demand for the public buildings of which he is custodian, and ma otitee in tne state House. Lieut. Cushman, of tho Sixteenth Infantry, who returned from Memphis this morning, authorizes and requests a contradiction of the statement telegraphed from Memphis, Wednesday, that he went to Memphis in order to telegraph to the President because of the violent partisan feeling in the telegraph office at Little Rock. He says he made no such statement, and his business to Memphis was wholly disconnected with the telegraph office at this place. CROP STATISTICS. LOWES MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. More nevalatlon and SnnVrinc In the Inundated District New Crevasse In Mississippi Levees Urent Damaises tu Crops and Bail-ways Bain still FnllliiK. New Orleans, April 24. A letter from a planter in Carroll parish says, in regard to tbe overflow, that there will be twentyseven plantations in that parish that will make no cotton at all, eleven that may make half a crop and twenty-nine that are good for a full crop. Water from the Bonnet Carre and McCullen crevasses has overflowed St. James parish. forcing many to leave their homes and seek protection in other places. . " - r i:f : A resolution Ul n relict meeting lu Pointe Coupee parish says that, in conse quence of a large numlier of persons having had their iiomee completely swept away and nothing saved, they being cut off from all communication with other parts of the parish, it is essentially necessary that immediate relief be afforded to prevent starvation. ine Lievae company s engineer, van Pelt, reports a crevasse at Mickey s, be yond control, luny quarter oi a mue wide and about ten leet deep. money s residence, a two-story frame cottage with eight rooms, was taken up by the flood and carried to the back part ol the plantation, where it lodged against treeB. Almost the entire parish of West Baton Rouge and the whole ot tne pansn ot Iberville, lying on the right bank of the Mississippi river, appear to be under water. A rain storm prevails this morning, the wind blowing half a gale from the northwest. For six days the northeastern and western mails have now been due. The Great Republic is due to-morrow with ninetysiz packages of matter. The Jackson railroad is broken near Amite, the bridges being washed away. On the Mobile road the bridge over rean river is washed away, and a portion of the West Pascagoula bridge u gone. .No trains by either road. Louisville. Aunt 24. ine uoara oi Trade to-day appointed several commit tees to thoroughly canvass tne city lor donations to the Louisiana relief fund. A considerable amount is already sub scribed and will be forwarded at once. Memphis. April 24. The Little Rock railroad is washed away near Riceville, stopping all communication. The dam age is not Known, out it win uuuuucti ue impossible to repair the road until the flood subsides. Weather cloudy and cold; river about the same. XLIII Cougress First Session. Lcirculated speeches of several members of the committee on banking and Currency. He denounced it aa favoritism, partiality, wrong and almost a crime. Mr. Randall stated that the matter had been informally called to the attention of the Banking committee. The abuse consisted in the Comptroller of the Currency sending out speeches of some members of the Banking committee to various banks and persons, but the Comptroller had stated as a justification that the postage was no greater with a speech than it would have been in correspondence without it. A member The speech must have been very light. Laughter.) Mr. Ward The practico would involve favoritism. Mr. Randall I believe that speeches of most of the members of the Banking committee were sent out in that way. Mr. Merriam None of mine. Mr. Randall I believe it was the fault of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Knox, and I think with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Ward) that the thing is all wrong, but that it is not Che first step in that direction, for enormous quantities of seeds are some times sent out in the same way through the Agricultural Department. Mr. Cobb of Kansas offered an amendment fixing the postage on agricultural reports at ten cents, but on objection of Mr. Willard of Vermont, it was ruled out of order. . Mr. Lawrence offered an amendment requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to obtain and publish statistics as to the production of wool, animal food, etc., but it was also ruled out of order. After the paragraphs relating to the Agricultural Department were disposed of without any notable changes, and when appropriations for the Judiciary came under consideration, Mr. Garfield, Chairman of the Appropriation committee, moved to insert an item of $1,000,000 to pay judgments of the Court of Claims. He remarked that the estimates were for $2,000,000, while the amount appropriated for the current year was only $400,000. He stated that the aggregate of pending cases before the court was about $4,000,-000, and the calculation was that $1,000,-000 would pay all judgments, but as the proposition was an important one he would not ask action on it untilto-morrow. The committee then, after disposing of fourteen pages of the bill and leaving only six pages undisposed of, rose. Mr. Myers introduced a bill to repeal the second section of the act of July, 1872, which reduces the duties on certain imported articles ten per cent. Referred. The House then adjourned. The Bellaire Commercial, edited (an well edited, too) by a woman, has the fol lowing paragraph, in type of special prominence. Thanks to the powers that be for the defeat nf female suffrage in the Constitu tional Convention. Most women nave more right already than they Uke good care of. Nearly $200!) and a large quantity of provisions were contributed on Change vMterdav in St. Louis for the Louisiana 'sufferers. AU money contributed will be invented in nrovLiona. which will be shipped to New Orleans under charge of an agent. The Government has rested its case the Howard Court of Inquiry. General Howard will commence hit defense on Monday, and expect to occupy ft week. Crop Prospect. Pittsburg Commercial. Should the season be ordinarily propiti ous from this time forward, there is little doubt that we shall have, from one end of the land to the other, one of the most abundant harvests witnessed for many years. The crop report from nearly all the States are full of the most hopeful and sanguine promise. Throughout tbe South we near oi extensive piBiiiiiign u, vum, wheat, oats and rice, as well as sugar and cotton, while labor is more abundant, and is secured at rates much lower man loose which have hitherto ruled. The change nf the nnlicr of nlantera from hiring on shares to monthly wages, has also had the effect of clearing the plantation or idlers, nnd of bringing into the field a large num ber of laborers. Altogether, the agricultural outlook of the year is most promis ing. At last an invention has been made and oatented. which it seems surprising has never before been attempted, and that is to arrange all wagons, buggies, carriage, etc., in such a manner that by the least pressure of the foot the horse can be unhitched from the carriage, and the wheels topped. Every vehicle drawn by animals ought to be constructed on this method. Acreage of Potatoes nnd Barley in Eight Ntntcs Condition of Swine nnd Prices of Produce. Indianapolis. April 24. The follow ing is an abstract of the summaries to be published to-morrow iu the National Crop Reporter : The area planted in irisn potatoes lasi vear in the States of Illinois, Indiana, "Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin was in round numbers 554,000 acres, the averrge percentage of increase upon wnicn lsesuniaisi ameany 5 per cent., or about 28,000 acres. r. 1 , T . "uorreponaenis in luuiueHum, i. aim Wisconsin estimate the probable increase in the area of barley to be 2.6 per cent. Ascorupared with last year tne average condition of swine, in April, in the eight States named above, shows a very low rate as compared with the condi. ion the same date last vear. Representing the latter by one hundred, the average lor tne eigni States is a fraction leas than eightyone. None of the States named export over ninety, and Missouri returns as low as aixtvseven. The average prices oi lending articles April 1, are as follows: Wheat $1.17, corn 55 cenU. oats 52 cents, hay $9.27, swine $4.66, potatoes $1.12. There is shown since March 15, an advance on corn, oats and hay, and a decline in wheat, swine and potatoes. Weather Probabilities. Washington. April 24. Over New England, winds will shift to northeast and southeast, with increasing cloudiness and over the southern portion rain. For the Middle States and lower lake reeion. increasing northeast to southeast winds, cloudy weather and over the former section rain. For the South Atlantic States, cloudy and rainy weather, with fresh and brisk winds, mostly ironi souiiieasi tonorm-west. For the Gulf States, winds shilling to north and west, clearing -Mather ana rising temperature. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, nartlv cloudy weather, and over the east. ern portion "of this area probably light rain. From Missouri north and northwest. ward over the upper lake region, rising temperature, brisk and possibly high southerly winds bearing to westerly, and over the northern portion rain. Stockholders of the Allegheny Valley railroad have elected the following Board of Directors: Col. Thomas A. Scott and George B. Robert, of Philadelphia: Job Scott, W'm. M. Lvon, Win. K. Nimick, TUT X 17 t- I m P.lr V 1 VJ 1 1 . AJ. X- , VUIICB, V 1 - ...... J , and Hon. Felix R. Brunot, of Pittsburg. John Scott was unanimously elected President by the new Board. The failure of John H. Zeregt, gold broker, is announced. Washington, April 24, SESiATK. The Senate proceeded to consideration of bills on the calendar, and the following were parsed : Senate hill amendatory of the act to provide an internal revenue to support the Government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1864. It provides that no legal document or paper required by law to be stamped, which was made, signed or issued in the Northern States prior to the first of July, 1805, shall be deemed or held as invalid or of no effect by reason of failure to impose thereon the required Btamp. The Chair laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War inclosing the draft of a hill in regard to the jurisdiction of courts-martial. Referred. Also, a letter from the Treasurer of the United Statts transmitting his accounts with tho Postollice Department. Referred. Mr. Edmunds, from the Judiciary committee, reported without amendment the same bill passed by the Senate last session, for the creation of a court for the adjudication and disposition of moneys received into the Treasury under an award made by the tribunal of arbitration, constituted by virtue of the first article of the treaty of Washington. Placed on the calendar. On motion of Mr. Sargent, the vote by which House bill to amend the twenty fifth section of the coinage act of 1873 was indefinitely postponed a few days ago, was reconsidered and the hill placed on the calendar. The morning hour having expired the Senate resumed consideration of the Lou isiana bill, and Mr. Merrunon concluded is argument commenced yesterday. Mr. MorrilUof Maine called up House bill to render available ceitain balances of unexpended appropriation for the payment of bounties and prize money to colored soldiers and sailors. Passed. The Senate went into Executive session and boou after adjourned until Monday. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting copiea of all orders and correspondence in .relation to the troubles in Arkansas, in answer to a resolution of the House. Re ferred. Mr. Swann. from the committee on Ap. nronriation. reiiorted the Consular anu Diulomatic Appropriation bill. Referred. The bill appropriates $3,347,304, includ in S150.000 for the survey ot the boun. dary between the United States and Brit-. . i -i e l. isn 1 08SeS8lons, iroill jjM3 Ul ine n wuo to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. It also includes Sl.929,819 to pay claims of British subjects allowed by the joint committee. The House then went into committee of the Whole, Woodford in the chair, on the Legislative, Executive and judicial AtmrnDnation bill. A motion by Mr. O'Brien to strike out the paragraph for the Board of Education gave rise to a long discussion, in the course of which Mr. Beck alluded to the Finance bill and its veto, declaring the Comptroller of the Currency had misled the President in regard to the four millions of national currency authorized but noi nsned. bv statine that it was not taken and leaving the impression that it was not called for, which was untrue, and all this in.order that the twentyhve minions which was to be redistributed when the whole amount authorized was taken up might not be called for but might be left with Eastern banks. He (Beck) did not charge tne President with falsehood in the matter, but the President had imposed upon the country inadvertently by using language which led- people to lnier mat ini luur millions had not been taken np because it was not wanted. That was one reason whv he (Beck, objected to swelling u bureaus that could not be relied upon to cive correct information. After further discussion the motion to strike out the paragraph for the Bureau of Education was withdrawn. The usual annual discussion over tli appropriation for the Agricultural De- narimeni occunieu several noiim nu covered the familiar range of subjects, such as the worth lessness or local map nronriateness of seeds furnished, supply ine to the Northwest such seeds as would trrow only in the Valley of the Lower Mississippi, and sending down there Pennsylvania rye and Berks oat. In the course of the discussion, which was gener ally of an amusing, discursive character, Mr. Ward asserted that some of the de-nartment were makine use of official Hostage stamps to circulate speeches of members, and on being pressed for sped ficaiions he named the Comptroller of the Currency as one official who had thus FOREIGN. LADIES and GENTLEMEN IV K are Sole Agents In this City for thebaic of Burt's liue&lioe f.r L utiles. Also, Hurt nnd M eare's goods for GeuiV wear. These goods have the reputation of being the best and flnest inadegood iu Am erica. A full Msnortmcnt, all widths and the 1 test styles just received. We are Headquarters for tine goods of all first-class makers. B. KINSEIX A CO., Opera House (Shoe Store, 167 South High St. the difference there might be in the state of exchange or of delivering bills of exchange. Exchange now being .164 per cent, premium on England a large sum of money has become due to the Englirh house. Payment has been demanded but refused, and the Spauiard threatened if the English house attempted to sue for the claim he would denounce Englishmen to the Captain General as monopolists and speculators aiding in financial ruin of the island. The Spaniard finding the Englishmen were not frightened has agreed to pay about $90,000 as acompromise. ENGLAND. lively discussios in parliament. London, April 24. In the House of Commons to-day, the Marquis of Sals-bury, Secretary of State for India, said the next harvest in India promised to be abundant, and the present provision against famine was undoubtedly ample. Mr. Smollett moved that the suddenness of the lute dissolution of Parliament is deserving of the censure of the House. He characterized the act as a coup d'etat, by which the last Government Bought un constitutionally to retain power. He de clared that Uladstone hart resorted to a Btratugem which was ungenerous to his friends, insolent to his opponents, and barely honest to the nation. Mr. Whallcy seconded the motion. Gladstone stigmatized the assertion that the dissolution was secretly planned as ntrue. absurd and imposssble. He chal lenged repetition of the word trickster, Inch had been applied to htm, and upon refusal of Smollett to repeat it he charged lui with lack ot decency and manliness. He defended the act of dissolution, which he declared would have been more inconvenient had it been postponed. On con cluding his speech, Gladstone left the House. The motion was negotiated without a lvision. Much excitement was mani fested during and at the close of thedebate. ELECTION BRIBERY. The last parliamentary election in Wakefield has been annulled on account of bribery. STEAMSHIP AGROUND. The steamship Silesia, from New York for Hamburg, is aground in the Elbe and reported to be in a dangerous position. A Large Claim Invalidated. Louisville, April 24. Some years nee a number of persons styling them selves the Campbell heirs, laid claim to a large portion ot this city, about three thousand acres in all, and embracing ail of Portland and the greater portion of land in Louisville below lhird street. A test suit was instituted in the Louisville Chancery Court, and was to-day decided by Vice Chancellor Harlan against the claimants. Part of the land claimed was that embracing the canal, and this claim has been used against the bill now pend ing in Congress lor the disposition oi the canal. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The coasting ship James Chester was beached just outside San Francisco harbor yesterday. - The Boston fund for relief of Louisiana sufferers, amounts to $50,000, with con tinued subscriptions. George Markland, a Boston printer, committed suicide last Thursday night. Ills wile recently drowned herself. Rozer Green was Bhot by Samuel Weaver in ft quarrel at Pulaski, Tenn., on the 22d. Green died shortly after ward. Afire at Brunswick, Mo., yesterday de stroyed a drug store and damaged three or four dry goods stores. Loss fcllJHU; no insurance. The Norwich and 'Worcester steam boat train was ditched Thursday night, smashing three cars and seriously injur ing three or lour persons. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company will issue new tariff tablesdisre- garding the new railway law wuicn goes into effect on the zaia inst. A three-story frame house in New York fell yesterday while being raised burving seven or eight workmen. Four were taken out; the other were believed to be dead. Louisa Machey, daughter of very wealthy parents in New lork, was drowned Thursday evening by falling into the dock while attempting to leap on board ft ferry boat just starting. Officer Benson, of the United State secret service, yesterday arrested John Earll and John Eaton and wife, in Bloom- field, Crawford county, Pa., and got half a bushel of hve-cent nickels, dies, etc. Meeder's Saving Bank and the post- omce in East Haddam, Conn- were robbed Thursday night, the former of $465 and about eight thousand dollars' worth of real estate and railroad bonds, and the latter of about $400. An English commercial house of New York some lime ago bought about 40,000 pounds sterling bill on England si 74 ner cent. Dremiuna from ft Cuban house I to be delivered by the middle of April, ' either party having the option of paying Washington Notes. Secretary Fish explained before the House Appropriations committee yesterday of his estimates for appropriations for consular and diplomatic service. Jose Antonia Echeverria, Minister of State of the Cuban Republic, left New York yesterday for Washington to petition Congress for formal recognition of belligerent rights for his countrymen. The House Judiciary committee has agreed to report a bill authorizing each Circuit and each District Court in the United States to appoint an official stenographer, at a salary of eight dollars per day. The Ways and Means committee was engaged yesterday in perfecting thedetails of a bill relating to moieties, which is being considered with extraordinary care. The committee early next week will examine several more witnesses in regard to the Sanborn contracts. The Attorney General has decided that when a mail contractor fails to fulfil his contract, a new contract cannot be made without re-advertisement. Also, that in order to rentier a mail contract valid a complete schedule of the route Bhould be embraced in the advertisement. A bill reported by the Judiciary committee of the House requiring the Governor of Utah to appoint a commission, which shall make up the jury lists, these lists to be made up from men who have been citizens of the Territory at least one year, and to be drawn in open court. The Mayor of New Orleans telegraph ed yesterday requesting the President to order rations to be issued promptly to Louisiana Bufferers, and adding that he who gives quickly gives doubly. The President responded that he had already directed all possible relief to be furnished.The Ways and Means committee has resolved to investigate the facts connected with the old whisky ring of Washington. It is alleged that suits begun against certain distillers, rectifiers and revenue officers two years ago, were abandoned through the influence of money, and of these charges the committee proposes to make thorough investigation. The Veto. The President's veto of the Finance bill was the general topic of conversation at Jefi'ersonville, Indiana, yesterday, and was both praised and censured. It was claimed by some that the matter was not a party one but one of commercial interest strictly. At a meeting of Indianapolis working-men Thursday evening, a resolution was adopted thanking Senator Morton and his Western colleagues for their advocacy of currency expansion, and urging them to oppose adjournment of Congress until "some satistuctory relict be granted to the industrial interests of the great West." General Butler has been interviewed on the veto. He said he had not read the veto message, but could not see how Grant could get around his own act of last fall, in issuing twentyBix million ot the reserve. In fact be did not understand it unless Grant had gone back on himself, adding, Well, if the rresident will deny his own act let him do it." Temperance Brevities. The woman's movement continues spreading in the Northwest. The Cincinnati State Convention of Temperance Leagues contained 541 dele gates, representing I6i towns and ia coun lies. A state Executive committee was appointed, which selected a State Central committee, whose duty it will be to pre pare and report at an early day a plan for .:.a:n a r.i,.i rni,iri;nn at Cleveland, in June, is proposed. Destroyed by Fire. Graflon, Ohio : Wm. Hart's dry goods, and W. T. Watsons hardware store, Loss, $12,000. Frankfort, Ind.: Livery stable de- stroved. Seventeen horses, two of which were worth $500 each, perished in the flames. Loss about $20,000. Delaware. Ohio : Buildings occupied by the Carlisle carriage factory, Griffith's marble works, and a erocery. Loss. $12.- 000. The fire originated from overheated rags in a rag warehouse. The Original Abolitionists. The committee of arrangements for the reunion of Abolitionists in Chicago in June has issued invitations to the follow-ing persons to be present, and deliver addresses, sketches, etc.: Wendell Phillips, on "John Brown;" George William Curtis, on a special subject, probably "The Abolitionists;" William L'oyd Garrison, special topic; Rev. J. A. Thorn, on the . "West India Emancipation;" Elihu Bur-;: ritt.New Britain, select topic; Hon. Henry Wilson, select topic; Hon. Charles Francis Adams; Oliver Johnson, Bristol, England ; Elder Edward Matthews, on "Father Dickson;" John Bright, M. P., London, England; James Clark, Street, England; Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, Grace Greenwood, ' Mrs. Tracy Cutler; Handle Cushman, Bristol, England ; Hon. E. B. Washburne, Hon. J. C. Fogg, F. E. McCracken, Addison Coffin, Hon. John F. Patten, General H. E. Payne, Hon. C. M.Hawley, John Brown ir., Owen Brown, Theodore D. Weld, General O. O. Howard, J. W. Wilson and Judge E S. Williams, of Chicago, an eulogy on James H. Collins. The committee on Biography report the following subjects for biographical sketches, to he read at the reunion : Illinois men E. P. Lovejoy, "the martyr," by Dr. E. Beecher; Major C. W. . Hunter, first candidate of the Liberty party for Governor, by Rev. D. B. Hurlburt; John H. Henderson, first Liberty candi date for Congress; Moses Hunter and Dr. Nelson, teachers in the free institute; Benjamin Lundy, anti-slavery pioneer; J. II. Collins, Owen Lovejoy, Jesse Fell and Ichabod Codding; Wisconsin men Chas. Durkee and 8. D. Hastings; Ohio men-Samuel R. Lewis, S. P. Chase and Joshua R. Giddings. The lady lecturer who told her hearers to feed their husbands on oatmeal porridge and apples probably never had a husband to feed. DIED. Pfckham At her son's, 221 South Sixth street, tiuzAniTHPtcKHAM, aged ninety-two yean. The funeral will take place cn Sunday at 2 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited. Dispatch copy It and charge this office. Palmer At his late residence, 255 South Fourth street, April 24, 1874, Jasom Palmii, in the 74th year of his ate. Funeral services at bis late residence, Fun-day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend. New Advertisements. "W do ii ! HAS REMOVED BIB FACTORY STORE rROH 21 EAST TRII.1D TO NO. 336 SOUTH HIGH, Where he i prepared to pay THE HIGHEST CASH PRICE FOR WOOL. HB ALSO KEEPS A FULL LINK OF Homc-Mudo Woolen Factory Doodg, At low prices fur cash or exchange for Wo 1. asirsiiecial attention iriveu lo ROLL CARDIN G.Spinuing and all Kinds of custom ork. apio Qitaw w uyi Foreign. Professor John Phillips, the English geologist, is dead. It is reported at Madrid that the Car- lists have paroled all their prisoners. Malcomno has been appointed by the Madrid Government Captain General of the Phillipine Islands. Cable communication is reopened be tween the West Indie and the Lnited Slates, as also with the Central and South America. The Cuban Captain General i said to be about to issue a decree fixing the premium on gold at 50 per cent, and declaring that any one susected of taking part in any transaction above that figure will be tried by court martial. A forced loan of $20,000,000 ia also talked of. On the 5th inst., the volunteers in one of the numerous stockades in the environs of Puerto Principe, Cuba, being short of water, twentyeight of them ottered i were ordered' to brine in ft supply from lagoon in the vicinity, but they had rmrdlv ovine bevond rifle ranee when they were attacked by Cuban and twentyfive of the twentyeight were killed. The surviving three only succeeded in escaping through their wittnes oi loot. ThK friends of General William Schouler. who died in West Iloxbury, Mam., in October. 1872, have erected monument to his memory, with appropri ate complimentary inscriptions. We are glad to learn that he was so highly appreciated by the people of his adopted Slate. Many years ago, General Schoulercame to Ohio", and was for a time editor of the Ohio State Journal. He was a gentleman in every sense of that term, and wa highly esteemed by all who had the good fortune C. Li. GERMAMA FIRE INsl'RANCE COMPANY, office. No. II West Third street, Cmein- nali, Ohio. J. H. CARTEK, President; IK B. MEYER, Secretary. State or Ohio, Ik -on c Dipabtmint, CutuMBUt), Jan lw, 18V4. WHEREAS, THE GERMAN1A r IKE amj Murine insurance Company, located al Cincinnati, in (he State of Ohio, htw filed in this office a sworn statement, by tne proper omeera thereof, showing its condition aim bumnenB, and has complied ia all respects with the laws of this State relating to Kire lnBurnuce ComnanieR; ISow, TiiKKKi'osE, In pursuance of law, i, William F. Church, bnperintendent of lnsiirmien of the State of Ohio, do herehy certify that naid company is aulhorired to transact its ap- Sropriaie nusine oi rir jnsmun-jc iu mis tate, in accordance with law, during the current year. The condition and business of said company at the date of such statement (Dec. 31. 1W7J,) ia shown as follows: Amount of actual paid up Capital.,., $100,000 00 Aggregate amount of available As- arts 17.714 Ail Aggregate amount ofLiabilities (ex cept capital), iiiriuunig v-i.t-t-e bv for re-iurance,being o per cent, of premiums on risks not terminated 87,222 58 Amount of income from preced- in vear in cash 4,iw tu Atnouut of income for premiums on rinks written during tne year, not paid in cash 3,721 W Amount of expenditures ior tiie preceding year in cash. .k,ti .u In witseps wiitRior, 1 have hereunto subscribed mv name and caused the seal of my sial. office to be affixed, the day and year above written. w. F CHURCH, Superintendent. Joseph Dowdall, Aa't.Columbus, 0. npso it " Notice to Contractors. SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED at the State Reform Farm School, nesr Lancaster. Ohio, till 12 o'clock noon. MAY 27, 1874, for furnishing tbe materials and performing the labor necessary for the election of one lamily building, 67 by 36 feet and three stories high above tbe basement. The basement story io he budt of block stone, the upper stories to be of brick. Finns and specifications can be teen at the office of the Acting Commistioner at the Farm. The contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder, who will he required to give a boml, with anod and suflicii ntsecuriiy, for the faithful pertormance of the work. ti. K. HOWE, J. A. M'T, I). W. CH1DLAW, ap25 Itaw 4w Commissioners. J. W. JAMES, BARBER & HAIR DRESSER, Under lb AMERICAN HOTEL The latest improvement In Shampooing ud Hair Cutting. First-class Barber, ia every particular. A fine BU Boost Is at- of making hit personal acquaintance. I tacned lo the shaving Saloon. trtwna L'tiism crnrf Uaseie. I ftJays-J-suip